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Re: uucp problems on Next 3.0

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From: Chris Gregors
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:10
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In article <Bz9npK.717@biff.gbdata.com> biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.002643.9359@crs-sys.uucp> crs@crs-sys.uucp (Chris  
>Gregors) writes:
>> But when uucp does the chat, the SCO box doesn't seem to like the <cr> in
>> the login. It doesn't seem to accept it. The chat script times out and you
>> know the rest.
>> 
>> I've seen the same thing on the SCO box before when calling in with
>> something that was using 7E1 but changing it to 8N1 fixed the problem.
>> 
>> So.... How to I get uucp to use pa=none like tip! and please don't tell me
>> that I have to change the getty on the SCO box.
>
>You can use P_ZERO in your chat script to set zero parity, but I don't think  
>you can force it to use no parity.  See the man page for L.sys for more info.
>
>I had problems similar to yours until I replaced the NeXT UUCP with Taylor  
>UUCP.  You may find that many of your problems will go away simply by  
>switching to Taylor.  I recommend it.
>

Thanks, someone else (I'm sorry whoever... I have your message at the office)
mailed me something similar including a complete chat script. the P_ZERO makes
all the difference! Now they chat fine.

And my boss (who was bagging about no connections for mail) still doesn't
understand why I read news!

-- 
| Chris Gregors aka General Mayhem                                           |
| The secrets of the universe are very simple, I just can't figure them out! |
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From: crs@crs-sys.uucp (Chris Gregors)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uucp problems on Next 3.0
Message-ID: <1992Dec17.011040.9231@crs-sys.uucp>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:10:40 GMT
References: <1992Dec13.002643.9359@crs-sys.uucp> <Bz9npK.717@biff.gbdata.com>
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